INDIAN WELLS, California (AP)—Top-ranked Novak Djokovic and No. 3 Roger Federer each needed three sets to reach the quarterfinals of the BNP Paribas Open on Wednesday, while No. 1 Victoria Azarenka improved to 21-0 on the season with a straight-set win on the women’s side. Second-ranked Rafael Nadal beat 21st-seeded

Whether you’re a beginner or seasoned tennis player, a regular lesson has probably been a part of your life at some point, and it likely will be again. Given the time and expense lessons entail, not to mention the long-term effect our relationships with teaching pros have on our tennis

*PICT2064 by Jackie Roe, TW Social Director Evening, TWibe. Quick question: Who’s headed to Cincinnati next month? I hadn’t planned on going this year . . . then just a few days ago I realized I couldn’t not go to my favorite tournament (live, anyway) so I’m making arrangements to

by Jackie Roe, TW Social Director Evening, TWibe! Time’s a-wastin’, so let’s get started. All Indian Wells attendees, don’t forget about our TW gathering on Friday, 3/9. We’ll be meeting in the lobby/bar area at the Renaissance Esmeralda Hotel, starting around 9 PM. Hope everyone can make it! If you’d

Tennis has changed radically since the game went Open in 1968. One moment, Rod Laver is swinging a Dunlop Maxply Fort on the green lawn of an exclusive country club. He’s dressed all in white, wearing a matching bucket hat. Less than five years later, Billie Jean King is a

*Am by Hannah Wilks, TW Contributing Writer The biggest challenge in writing about Rafael Nadal (apart from not letting my bitterness as an Andy Murray fan overwhelm me) is finding something new to say. It’s not just that his undeniable brilliance has already been heavily chronicled, as much as the

[[Mornin'. Tribe. Here's your Watercooler post for today, courtesy of a young man who's relatively new to TennisWorld. Chatting with Richard a few weeks ago, I told him that I felt as if I often shorted-changed the WTA in my coverage, and invited him to write a post on the

by Pete Bodo

The 2016 season has come and gone, and 2017 play is nigh. (That didn't take long.) Here's a look at the quirkiest moments, largely outside the lines of the tennis court, from the year that was. 16 The inescapably entertaining duo of Andrea Petkovic and Jelena Jankovic "uncensored" at the

The Shanghai Masters is in the quarterfinal stage now, and two of what seems to be an increasingly shaky Big Four, Andy Murray and Rafael Nadal, are out of the running. Meanwhile, the other two, Novak Djokovic and Roger Federer, are penciled in as semifinal opponents. The upshot? A player

(Ed. note: It's been a rough day, folks. I haven't been able to get on to post comments since the second set of the Williams-Peer match. Hopefully, this problem will be resolved by tomorrow. I understand, though, that your comments are being posted. Let me or Steggy know if you're

CAGLIARI, ITALY—Can anything really happen in Fed Cup? That's what the players tend to say when asked about the possibilities of upsets or collapses prior to ties. For the most part, things to tend to go to form as the better players on tour usually win their matches, and while

ATP Rank: No. 144 UTR Rank: No. 42 What he's done since last summer: Won the Champaign, Columbus, and Noumea Challengers An ATP coach once told me that players armed with huge weapons will always outrank the weaponless. The point structure rewards a few fantastic results far more than consistent,

For nearly two hours on Sunday afternoon, everything had gone so smoothly and serendipitously for Jannik Sinner. He had broken his opponent, Taylor Fritz, in the first game. That had given him an early lead, and eased any jitters he may have felt about playing his first US Open final,

This past weekend, I received some awesome news. In my email inbox, from the long arm of the ESPN PR machine, was a release stating that the Abierto Mexicano Telcel Open would air on ESPN Deportes from February 25 to the final on March 1. It read, in part, “Beginning

When it comes to the pioneering figures of the past, the facts of their lives may not change from one era to the next, but the meanings we find in them do. Whether it’s Martin Luther King or Billie Jean King, every generation takes what it needs from history’s inspirational

WATCH: The latest episode of The Break discusses Zverev's return to practice, Azarenka's visa issues

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Major League Pickleball will be the first major American professional sports league to implement a promotion and relegation system. The draft for the first season—featuring some of the world's best pickleball players and most famous celebrities—will take place in Las Vegas tonight, Thursday, December 15th, and air on Tennis Channel

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — All of 17, never the winner of a Grand Slam match until this week, Amanda Anisimova is making quite a first impression at the Australian Open. Anisimova showed precisely why there are those who consider her a possible future star, producing one spectacular shot after another